Report: Pope Refuses To Meet With Condi

AFP:

Pope Benedict XVI refused to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in August, saying he was on holiday, an Italian newspaper reported Wednesday.

Rice "made it known to the Vatican that she absolutely had to meet the pope" to boost her diplomatic "credit" ahead of a trip to the Middle East, the Corriere della Sera daily reported without citing its sources.

She was hoping to meet the pontiff at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo at the beginning of August, it said.

"'The pope is on holiday' was the official response," the paper said.

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Comments

[huntergatherer]

No fan of Condi here but who gives a shit what that Vatican clown in a skirt has to say, f#@k the Pope and all the f#@kers who kiss his ring and ass.

[hugs4u]

If I might say so, huntergatherer you are one big asshole.

[hugs4u]

I am not even a catholic.

[fourex]

Thank God.

[Macready]

Yes fourex . . . and let's hope the Pope keeps his door permanently closed to anyone from the criminal bush administration . . .

[RabidRightRebel]

I guess that means no absolution for Condi. Perhaps she and George should do the next best thing which is throw the Catholic Church out of America and create The Church of America. After all having a Church that supports ill-conceived wars and torture can be very useful, just ask King Henry. Oh wait a minute lots of Church that support war and torture already exit. Sorry George the Evangelists and Mormons have beaten you to it.

[researcher]

let stanford take her back this elitist school will welcome the war monger back and even pay her a huge salary.

when she writes her book the neo cons will trip over themselves to buy it.

some even want her to run for pres. you think ike was on the golf course a lot she will be walking off planes a lot and smiling.

blood on her hands means nothing to these elitist schools.

imperialism runs deep in the american mentality even in elitist universities.

got to admit she has it down to a science getting on and off planes and smiling the whole time.

never has done anything but she can smile and wave and say yes to the alpha dog bush.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

why is Stanford elitist? just because the Hoover Institute tower thrusts into the campus sky?

Stanford plays dangerous billion dollar games with ExxonMobil.

the educational complex is inseparable from the Military-Industrial Complex, but education is the only hope for the survival and progress of humanity, starting with Kindergarten.

$8k/yr for every child in school vouchers. that is the future.

[godlessclif]

Trade your right to an education for a cash voucher that does not have enough money to do the job. This is the end of entitlements. Hillary care is like Health Vouchers. Every American is entitled to medical care.

You probably have seen the Carlin Video. The people who own America, a couple of million of them want more for them and less for us.
What they want least is an educated populace capable of critical thinking.

They want machine tenders who can read instructions and count their pay and make change. That is why NCLB
does not teach logic or history or insight gained by literature. READ AND ADD, READ AND ADD!!

[Podewumun]

As a retired teacher with several extremely successful business owners 'on my pelt', I have to say, Bush's NCLB is total garbage and so is the idea of only the RICH deserving of an education.
Do you really NOT KNOW that that $8K figure you're touting as 'the future' will cut up to 60% of America's children out of an education?
Or are you just more interested in slashing the property taxes (the bulk of which go to fund PUBLIC education) on your fucking McMANSION?

[Qbear]

Rattzinger must have heard that lesbian rumor...Condi he's not too keen on queers, but usually he just hides them in a different Parish.

[Podewumun]

Qbear
did you get my missive begging forgivness for totally sopwith Richard Simmons spoof?
old gertrude seeks redemption.
Oh, baby, baby, puleeeeeeze!?

[Podewumun]

Oh, Qbear?
I know you know who Mo Rocca is. Funny as hell and an artisan wordsmith. I've been trying to phone Waddya Know on NPR for the longest time to ask him, since I KNOW he adores the Marx Brothers, where is Chico Marx when you REALLY need him?

Can you imagine what Chico would have done with a name like Condoleeza Rice?
I know you can, if you're a Marx devotee...

Groucho: Ever hear of the Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice?
Chico: "Shooore, so wadda? Da cunta eatza rize. I lika da kareem a wheat, who careza?"
Groucho: "Well, I hoid she likes to eat beans."
Chico: "Rize, beenz, alla da sam to a me. Dey all gimme da gazz."

[Podewumun]

I do believe that his country of origin (Germany) took 'queers' out first thing...
What possible use are 'queers' to a 'church' that made the bulk of it's fortune DEMANDING that's it's followers 'be fruitful and multiply' and tithe according, generation after generation after generation...
Simple exponential mathematics.
Think about it.
Times up!

[godlessclif]

Actually it was communists first, then Jews and Queers after that.
In 1933 they were arresting communists for burning down the Reichstag.
By 1935 they were killing Jews and had the Nuremberg laws.
It wasn't until later after the 1936 Olympics that the Homosexual and Abortion ban was made law and they started arresting Homos and Abortion doctors[OB/GYN]

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

all of a sudden, you stop believing "official sources." go figure.

[mommadona]

Sounds like the Teddy Bears are having a Picnic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuNf70eV6sY

[CalculatedRiskTaker]

So you where expecting the pope to meet with the Devil ?

[barrycourage]

Especially one that lives in the knee hole of King Chimpster's desk.

[Podewumun]

Naaaah, I don't think so.
Return to last weekend's "Yes, Condi, It Is Relevant" blog.

[accountability]

Or the other way around.
They are both scary.